Yonbaek Peasant Dance is a popular folk dance created by the Korean peasants in the course of singing and dancing merrily to the tune of drums and to the accompaniment of musical instruments, hoping for or celebrating bumper harvest.

   It is a traditional form of art peculiar to the Korean nation which was created in the Yonbaek Plain area, including Chongdan, Yonan and Paechon on the southeast coast in South Hwanghae Province, and handed down for ages.

   The area is the bread basket of the country. So, the dance, which adds pleasure to farm work and demonstrates the unity of a collective, was developed on a higher level in the area than in other areas.

   The peasant dance was created as a means of hoping for or celebrating bumper harvest along with the development of primitive agriculture. The Koreans, who regarded agriculture as the primary source of livelihood for a protracted period of history, performed the dance frequently and reflected their national emotion and living customs.

   Today, the Yonbaek Peasant Dance is not confined to farm work of peasants and a folk holiday game in our country. It is played on national holidays and art performances.

   It was inscribed as No. 7 on the national inventory of intangible cultural heritage on January 26, 2013.